Dialogue: Monthly Cross-disciplinary Salon

Dialogue is a monthly cross-disciplinary salon, every 1st Wednesday of the month, that as it's name suggests encourages a creative dialogue between science, art, technology, ethics and politics. Through a theatrical fun debate, we invite individuals from these equal and fundamental cogs of culture to offer us a multi-faceted perspective - from the personal everyday to broader societal questions (FUN not serious, we promise!).

The format introduces each speaker seated in an informal circle (with audience in surrounding concentric circles), each speaker elaborates on their expertise of the general topic and their stance on the specific topic and question. Subsequently, there’s a fun 'dialogue' in a debate style led by the chair wherein speakers comment and challenge each other, offering their own perspectives on how it may affect their personal lifestyle/careers and wider society. Each speaker will have up to 2 mins at any one time (enforced by the chair with a melodious gong!) and can only do so through the "Dialogue Phone” (a technological triumph!). After a couple of rounds, the 'dialogue' is opened up to the audience for an opportunity to engage with the speakers (once again through the brilliant invention that is the “Dialogue Phone”). Members of each concentric circle engage in 'dialogue' with individual or all speakers.

Thinking outside disciplines: Jack of All Trades or Master of None?

10,000 hours of practice to achieve expertise in any one field ... Is it possible to excel in more than one discipline, or is it inevitably a trade-off between depth and breadth? Join us on our very first Dialogue in this multidisciplinary debate exploring what it means to be a polymath - and can you not be one in our increasingly competitive modern society.